A 24-month, fully online programme in Dynamic Psychosocialsomatic Psychotherapy (DPP) and its relational application, TIRM, grounded in Complexity Science, Systems Biology, Nonlinear Dynamical Theory and Predictive Organisation. Moving beyond symptom-focused models, it examines how complex trauma emerges, stabilises and can reorganise across biological, psychological, developmental and relational systems.
Study fully online at your own pace, with platform access throughout the full 24-month programme.
Progress through ten connected modules linking systems-science foundations, advanced formulation and applied DPP/TIRM clinical practice.
Deepen understanding through ten individual live lectures, flexibly scheduled alongside your progress through each module.
Translate complex theory into precise formulation, clinical decision-making and interventions responsive to each person’s organisation.
Symptoms are secondary; organisation is primary. DPP & TIRM move beyond protocol-led treatment to map how trauma emerges, stabilises and becomes capable of reorganisation across the whole human system.
Understand complex trauma as emergent organisation generated through interacting biological, psychological, developmental and relational processes.
Map attractors, predictions, constraints and feedback loops to identify what sustains each person’s presenting organisation.
Use prediction error, relational perturbation and constraint loosening to support capacity expansion and structural reorganisation.
Apply DPP to individual-system organisation and TIRM to couples and emergent relational fields in practice.
A coherent 24-month pathway from systems-science foundations to advanced clinical reasoning, formulation and application of DPP & TIRM.
Explore how developmental experience becomes biologically embedded through reciprocal feedback across interacting scales. Constraint formation, predictive learning and attractor stabilisation explain how trauma becomes an organised whole-system adaptation, shaping physiology, relationships, regulatory capacity and the states available to the person.
Examine how attachment, embodiment and developmental coupling generate reciprocal predictions between self and others. Multiscale biological regulation, relational feedback and attractor dynamics show how repeated interaction stabilises identity, co-regulation and expectations, while constraining the relational possibilities a person can perceive.
Map presentations through multidimensional state spaces, attractor basins, trajectories and vector fields. Connecting embodied physiology, multiscale constraints, recursive feedback and learned prediction explains why configurations persist, how stability transforms and when nonlinear transitions become therapeutically accessible within complex living systems.
Examine how sleep, nutrition, movement, circadian rhythm and physiological load operate as control parameters across biological scales. Constraint coupling, order parameters, predictive regulation, nucleation barriers and the slaving principle reveal how everyday conditions restrict—or expand—the organism’s capacity for structural transition.
Distinguish symptom regulation from structural change by examining bifurcation, metastability, hysteresis and critical slowing down. Prediction error, metabolic capacity, multiscale feedback and shifting control parameters clarify how constrained systems cross thresholds and stabilise new, durable patterns of adaptation over time.
Understand dissociation as partitioned state-space organisation rather than random fragmentation. Path dependence, survival physiology, precision-weighted predictions and multiscale constraint loops explain why self-states become isolated, remain unavailable to one another and require carefully sequenced clinical conditions before reintegration becomes possible.
Formulate addiction as a self-reinforcing attractor rather than an isolated behaviour. Reward learning, metabolic state, precision amplification and recursive social feedback interact across scales, deepening habitual trajectories while narrowing perceived alternatives and the organism’s capacity for adaptive action and connection.
Examine the Cell Danger Response as a multiscale framework for persistent defensive organisation. Mitochondrial adaptation, immunometabolism, inflammation, threat prediction and nonlinear attractor stability connect cellular signalling with organism-wide states, revealing how biological constraints can maintain protection beyond the original danger.
Explore active inference as the process through which organisms anticipate, perceive and act under uncertainty. Generative models, priors, precision weighting and prediction error interact with embodied physiology, nonlinear attractor dynamics and environmental feedback to stabilise organisation or enable structural reorganisation.
Apply DPP through the Trauma-Informed Relational Model, conceptualising the couple as an interdependent dynamical field rather than two individuals. Shared attractors, reciprocal predictions, embodied states and recursive feedback loops reveal how dyadic organisation emerges, stabilises and becomes capable of reorganisation.
Join a new generation of clinicians and
researchers advancing the science and
practice of trauma recovery.
Access your modules, learning resources, live-session details and programme materials through the student platform.
Formulate complex trauma as a multiscale, self-organising adaptation rather than a collection of isolated symptoms.
Deepen understanding through ten individual live lectures, flexibly scheduled across the programme’s ten integrated modules.
Integrate Complexity Science, Systems Biology, Nonlinear Dynamical Theory and Predictive Organisation into advanced clinical reasoning.
Apply DPP to individual-system organisation and TIRM to couples and emergent relational fields in practice.
Precisely map attractors, predictions, constraints and feedback loops sustaining each person’s clinical presentation over time.
Complete 20 separately billed DPP/TIRM case consultations as part of the full 24-month accreditation pathway, as required for Institute accreditation.
